Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

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Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manager, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, "Slate") but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" ("Weekly Standard").
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Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manager, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, "Slate") but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" ("Weekly Standard").
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Signed/inscribed by author, Good copy, Unmarked, Solid and tight, Cover has wear, No jacket. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books, ship within 48 hours and offer a 100% money back guarantee.

Very good in very good jacket. xv, [1], 288 pages. Signed and Dated on half-title by Billy Beane! Gift card from Bowman Cutter of Warburg Pincus related to signed copy laid in. Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include Liar's Poker (1989), The New New Thing (2000), Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003), The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006), Panic (2008), Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (2009), The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010), and Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (2011). He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009. A best-selling author, Lewis has drawn both supporters and vocal detractors. In a review of Moneyball, Dan Ackman of Forbes said that Lewis had a special talent: "He can walk into an area already mined by hundreds of writers and find gems there all along but somehow missed by his predecessors. " A New York Times piece said that "[n]o one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis, " praising his ability to use his subject's stories to show the problems with the systems around them. William Lamar "Billy" Beane III (born March 29, 1962) is an American former professional baseball player and current front office executive. He is the Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and minority owner of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). Prior to his front office career, he played in MLB as an outfielder between 1984 and 1989 for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics. He joined the Athletics front office as a scout in 1990. He was named general manager after the 1997 season, and promoted to executive vice president after the 2015 season. A first round pick in the MLB draft by the Mets, Beane's playing career failed to meet the expectations of scouts, who projected him as a star. In his front office career, Beane has applied statistical analysis (known as sabermetrics) to players, which has led teams to reconsider how they evaluate players. He is the subject of Michael Lewis' 2003 book on baseball economics, Moneyball, which was made into a 2011 film starring Brad Pitt as Beane. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Bille Beane. Its focus is the team's analytical, evidence-based, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team, despite Oakland's disadvantaged revenue situation. A film based on the book starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill was released in 2011. The central premise of Moneyball is that the collective wisdom of baseball insiders (including players, managers, coaches, scouts, and the front office) over the past century is subjective and often flawed. Statistics such as stolen bases, runs batted in, and batting average, typically used to gauge players, are relics of a 19th-century view of the game and the statistics available at that time. The book argues that the Oakland A's' front office took advantage of more analytical gauges of player performance to field a team that could better compete against richer competitors in Major League Baseball (MLB). Rigorous statistical analysis had demonstrated that on-base percentage and slugging percentage are better indicators of offensive success, and the A's became convinced that these qualities were cheaper to obtain on the open market than more historically valued qualities such as speed and contact. These observations often flew in the face of conventional baseball wisdom and the beliefs of many baseball scouts and executives. By re-evaluating the strategies that produce wins on the field, the 2002 Athletics, with approximately US$44 million in salary, were competitive with larger market teams such as the New York Yankees, who spent over US$125 million in payroll that same season....

Fine in fine dust jacket. near fine book and near fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. SIGNED BY BILLIE BEANE AND MICHAEL LEWIS. Now a movie starring Brad Pitt. The classic of the revolution in baseball, and the story of it's architect. I have 1000+ baseball books for sale. To see a complete list send me an email request.

Very Good plus in Very Good plus jacket. 6.5 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches. First Edition. First Printing. Signed by author on title page. Pages are clean with no additional markings from previous owners. Binding is square and tight. Boards are clean with minor edgewear. Text block is very faintly soiled. Dust jacket covers are overall clean and bright, faint scuffing and rubbing to back cover. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.

Fine in fine dust jacket. near fine book and near fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. SIGNED BY BILLIE BEANE AND MICHAEL LEWIS. Now a movie starring Brad Pitt. The classic of the revolution in baseball, and the story of it's architect. I have 1000+ baseball books for sale. To see a complete list send me an email request.

Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Signed and Inscribed By Author Rare as a signed copy. Signed and inscribed by author "To Tom-You're a player. Fenway Park 25 July 2003 Michael Lewis" on title page. Top front corner of book very lightly bumped else fine. Jacket has very light edgewear else fine. Soon to be a movie starring Brad Pitt.

Customer Reviews

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis

Fascinating

How much does anyone outside of baseball know about the business of the game? Besides being a great story about an obscure writer, an ex-ballplayer/current GM, and a new way of evaluating players, this book is a fascinating look at how MLB teams are run. Loved it.

Kath12y

Jun 11, 2010

Inside Baseball!

This is Great reading - hard to put it down. BUT you must have a baseball interest to stay connected. Lewis is a fine writer.

BlueHorseshoe

Jul 26, 2007

Moneyball: A Home Run

Mr. Lewis's excellent book offers an illuminating, "inside-baseball", look at America's pastime for fans, and applicable lessons for executives and managers in business. Moneyball is a David & Goliath story: examining how the Oakland A's revolutionary management strategies made optimal use of a small budget to produce one of the winningest teams in the game, challenging even the highest-budget franchises for supremacy. The underlying lesson of the book is that blind reliance on "conventional wisdom" is usually a fool's errand.Moneyball is entertaining and insightful; it's a worth-while read.

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